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The French
Directed by
William Klein
Not Rated
2021
2h 10m
Documentary
,
Sport
7.4
100%
7.2
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For the very first time, a documentary team is allowed to shoot sequences in the backstage of the French Open of tennis of Roland-Garros.
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Cast of The French
Arthur Ashe
Self
Marcel Bernard
Self
Björn Borg
Self
Don Budge
Self
Philippe Chatrier
Self
Henri Cochet
Self
Jimmy Connors
Self
Chris Evert
Self
Ivan Lendl
Self
Jean-Pierre Loth
Self
Hana Mandlíková
Self
John McEnroe
Self
Ilie Năstase
Self
Martina Navratilova
Self
Yannick Noah
Self
Victor Pecci
Self
Fred Perry
Self
Virginia Ruzici
Self
Ion Țiriac
Self
Thierry Tulasne
Self
The French Ratings & Reviews
Newport This Week (RI)
Loren King
Whether you are an ardent or a casual fan of tennis, you can't take your eyes off the engrossing 1982 verité documentary The French.
Boulder Weekly
Michael J. Casey
What Klein conveys in "The French" is what makes tennis so perfectly tennis.
The Weekend Warrior (Substack)
Edward Douglas
Thoroughly satisfying more for the stuff going on behind the scenes than the actual matches.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
Klein weaves all these moments into a story one could call spectacularly earthbound.
TheWrap
Robert Abele
It's Klein at his most conservatively verité and least pointedly judgmental, but he still offers up a tapestry of personalities, playing, and performing that captures what is ineffably beautiful and edgy about tennis.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Though the film doesn't quite capture the extremes of athletic action, psychology, or sociology, it points at them alluringly.
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